Maintenance Phase
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- Culture
- Publisher
- Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
- Host
- Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes
- Language
- English
Maintenance Phase, hosted by Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes, debunks wellness trends and the junk science around weight, food, and celebrity health advice.
Gordon writes and speaks from experience in fat-acceptance work. Hobbes is a reporter who enjoys a bad study. Together they read the original paper, the press release, and the grift that followed.
The show is criticism as narrative. A diet, a bestseller, a moral panic: they tell you who sold it and who got hurt. The citations are the point.
A series about a particular guru is richer in order. Either way, they assume you can hear a sacred health claim and still ask about the sample size.
Last episode listed in the official feed
RFK Jr.'s Buckwild Belief That HIV Doesn't Cause AIDS
Read from the publisher’s RSS on Oct 3, 2026 · Sep 21, 2026 ET. Audio is not hosted here.
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